You Went Away: A Novella

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Page 105At the top, as Matthew rose beside her, she turned and looked back into the yard
and along the drive. "Isn't it beautiful," she said. "For a change, we've landed on
our feet." The Willows, Trenton, Ontario, 10.7.42 Dear Eloise, I'm writing this as ...

Page 161'Tato salad made up part of the staple Willows' diet, along with devilish eggs and '
mato saniches. Reference had been made to seizure salad, but one had not yet
appeared at table. Mi had no difficulty in working out what all these menu items ...

Page 181"Happens to be the Adjutant." "Yes. I've heard of him." "El was wondering if ... Don
't worry if it isn't possible, but she said you'd said there might be room at The Willows." Mi's mind went blank. The Willows. Eloise. Ivan. "No." Roy looked
startled.

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Timothy Findley blew me away with his skill of story telling when I read The Last of the Crazy People last year. He did not disappoint me with this one. The story starts out in our time period as a ...Consulter l'avis complet

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Timothy Findley was born in 1930. A native of Toronto, Canada, novelist and playwright Timothy Findley initially embarked upon an acting career. Findley worked for the Canadian Stratford Festival and later, after study at London's Central School of Speech and Drama, he toured Britain, Europe, and the United States as a contract player. While performing in The Matchmaker by Thornton Wilder, Findley was encouraged by the playwright to write fiction. Influenced by film techniques, Findley's first novel, The Last of the Crazy People (1967) is a penetrating look at a family of "emotional cripples" from a child's perspective. With his character Hooker, Findley captures the irrational logic of a child's mind without treating childhood sentimentally.The Butterfly Plague followed in 1969. The Wars (1978), Findley's most successful novel, has been translated into numerous languages and was made into a film. The Wars uses the device of a story-within-a-story to illustrate how a personality transcends elemental forces even while being destroyed by them. In 1981 Famous Last Words was published. This fictionalization of Hugh Selwyn Mauberley by Ezra Pound, a work that was already a "fictional fact," examines fascism. In Not Wanted on the Voyage (1984), Findley rewrites the story of Noah's Ark by giving voices to women, children, workers, animals, and folklore creatures, all of whom question Noah's authority. The novel turns into a parable that seems to challenge imperialism, eugenics, fascism, and any other force that endangers human survival. Again repeating an earlier text, Findley turns to Thomas Mann's Death in Venice to write The Telling of Lies (1986). This novel draws parallels between World War II atrocities and contemporary North America, which Findley sees as a metaphoric concentration camp. Findley died on June 20, 2002 in Provence, France